DaveOZ wrote:Oh, You mean the plate on the bottom. Sorry I'm being thick.

May be able to make those. It worries me that the screw heads might wear down on mine to the point that they won't come out. I think they should be recessed a bit further. Actually titanium would be excellent for that bottom plate.

I made some in my garage one day as I needed them for a bike fit and they looked well, like someone had made them in their garage - did the trick but Dave's look factory

The factory plates are $20-$30 for the pair, I'm sure they could be made for far less if you had the tools.

Geez, I know you guys love 'em for your knees and stuff, and bless Speedplays if you they enable you to keep riding for those reasons, but this thread is enough to turn any prospective 'average' Speedplay users off for life. What a lot of faffing about for pedals/cleats.

Jean wrote:Geez, I know you guys love 'em for your knees and stuff, and bless Speedplays if you they enable you to keep riding for those reasons, but this thread is enough to turn any prospective 'average' Speedplay users off for life. What a lot of faffing about for pedals/cleats.

LOL I guess that is a fair comment,but after all, if you pedal for 6 hours, pedal and saddle comfort become a high priority.

Jean wrote:Geez, I know you guys love 'em for your knees and stuff, and bless Speedplays if you they enable you to keep riding for those reasons, but this thread is enough to turn any prospective 'average' Speedplay users off for life. What a lot of faffing about for pedals/cleats.

LOL I guess that is a fair comment,but after all, if you pedal for 6 hours, pedal and saddle comfort become a high priority.

Jean wrote:Geez, I know you guys love 'em for your knees and stuff, and bless Speedplays if you they enable you to keep riding for those reasons, but this thread is enough to turn any prospective 'average' Speedplay users off for life. What a lot of faffing about for pedals/cleats.

LOL I guess that is a fair comment,but after all, if you pedal for 6 hours, pedal and saddle comfort become a high priority.

Bumping this thread to see if anyone has any recent solutions to the lateral rocking issue with the Speedplays. I ride a lot and the clip spring in the cleat, the adaptor plate for the shoe, the pedal body and the spindle wear out quickly. I use the keep on covers thinking they would make the cleats last forever, but looks like I need to buy a whole new cleat set just to replace the clip spring in any case. I purchased a lightly used set of titanium pedals, but the rocking is still there.

What are people doing these days? These seem to be the options:

1) buy a cro-mo set and put them on my titanium spindles - use the new cleats2) buy a body kit and put them on the old spindle3) buy after market titanium bow ties and put them on the worn pedal bodies4) try to find after market spring clips for the cleats

5) try the pave' models in the hope the lateral rocking doesn't occur in those models

I suppose with the pave' model you'll be looking at new cleats only, as surely the pedal body can not wear out. Perhaps there'll still be cleat contact with the spindle, but that remains to be seen.

At this rate, I'm looking at a new set of pedals about every year. This is with two sets of shoes and two sets of cleats. I've lessened the floating as I don't need as much as I thought. I think this may lead to premature wear as your foot rotates.

At the moment I'm thinking of trying the Dura Ace, but want to exhaust the speedplay options first.

J Quinton wrote:Bumping this thread to see if anyone has any recent solutions to the lateral rocking issue with the Speedplays. I ride a lot and the clip spring in the cleat, the adaptor plate for the shoe, the pedal body and the spindle wear out quickly. I use the keep on covers thinking they would make the cleats last forever, but looks like I need to buy a whole new cleat set just to replace the clip spring in any case. I purchased a lightly used set of titanium pedals, but the rocking is still there.

What are people doing these days? These seem to be the options:4) try to find after market spring clips for the cleats

1) buy a cro-mo set and put them on my titanium spindles - use the new cleats2) buy a body kit and put them on the old spindle3) buy after market titanium bow ties and put them on the worn pedal bodies

5) try the pave' models in the hope the lateral rocking doesn't occur in those models

or

6) get some dura ace pedals

Your thoughts are appreciated.

New pedals & cleats - they charge too much for the spares.

If you are running X-series, I've found the new V2 cleats will stop the rocking even on a well worn set of pedals as they have a bigger contact/engagement area on the pedal. The V2 springs will be grabbing parts of your pedal that are brand new and untouched by the older springs.

I've personally changed to Shimano Ultegra pedals as all my speedplay pedals were up for replacement - but - I'm not sure if this will be a permanent change as yet as we are still getting to know each other...

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